My Short Story

For this piece of writing I have focusing on my vocabulary and punctuation. I have been learning to: use a range of precise vocabulary to communicate meaning and use all basic punctuation independently and attempt more complex punctuation (e.g semicolons, colons, parentheses)

The pieces of my writing that are highlighted green are where I have shown my vocabulary and punctuation goal

THE BACKLANE CRIME

James Hagrid is a 24 year old and he works as an Undercover Police Detective in New York City. He has been working as an Undercover Detective for 4 years and there is one crime scene that hasn’t been solved for 4 years and it happened for just before Detective James was recruited.

When Detective James went to the crime scene on the 9th of May (Tuesday night) to look for leads to find out who killed Johnny McStiffenson, waiting for him there is the man who killed Johnny McStiffenson. He looked Detective James in the eye and threatens to kill him as well, and then dashed off so Detective James paced it after him and he chased him down an alleyway called backlane lane then Detective James runs out of breath and he has to stop. Once he gets his breath back he starts to hunt him down again and he chases him all over town, now Detective James has had enough so he calls in the Special Arms forces to chase him down. But luckily for him he has led the cops right to his 2014 Lamborghini, it was an awesome car for someone who probably lives in his car but I mean he probably stole it or bought it with the money he stole. It was pimped out it looked pretty awesome, I bet that this would be Detective James’s Dream car. The thing is that Detective James was actually dreaming he only had a piece of dirt Toyota it was a 4 door car but it only had 2 doors because he had been in too many police chases. But anyway back to the police chase, they chased him for 2 hours and they had to bring in tanks and police choppers, there were so many police on the chase. They chased him right through the city and all the way out to the dessert, and that was where they stopped him and arrested him. They found out his name and his relations, and they researched his other police records and they found a lot from the past year.

His name was Alex Scott and they couldn’t find any other relations alive, He was arrested for 26 months in the NYSDOC Queensboro correctional facility. 20 months later…      Alex Scott has 6 months left in the NYSDOC Queensboro correctional facility and when he is released he will be under supervision for 4 months to make sure he doesn’t do anything like murder or things like that.

Term 1 Integrated Learning - Leadership

We have been learning all about What makes a good leader.

Here is a link to the Leadership modelling book.

We identified that good leaders show 6 main character traits. These are Integrity, Trustworthy, Resilience, Goal Focused, Active Thinker and Motivational.

The leadership trait that I think I show the most is Resilience because when I fail to achieve something the first time I keep on trying to achieve it the second time.

The leadership trait I would most like to develop is Active Thinker so I can develop my thinking to come up with new ideas and extend ideas.

Something NEW I have learned about leadership is that it is a skill of being able to motivate people/teams to work towards a goal.

The SOLO level that I reached during this unit of learning is Extended-Abstract because I can evaluate the effectiveness of a leader.

My next step in learning about leadership is to apply everything that I have learned about leadership to my own leadership roles.

Music

WALT - I can describe the characteristics of music from songs of a different time and place

Over the past 7 weeks I have been learning to describe the characteristics of music from songs of a different time and place.

I can describe these characteristics in a piece of music

Melody- A procedure of single notes that is interesting and enjoyable.

Harmony- A combination of musical notes to make it effective.

Timbre- Is a quality of a musical note or sound.

Form- Form refers to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music.

Rhythm- Is a pattern in music that represents that certain type of music.

Here is an example of my learning

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xOuaGgo0kiWEKC2exYBhS1H5SKX0JT0mbtIiaWaLMNc/edit

IXL Achivement

WALT - Find and validate data measures e.g MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE AND RANGE from appropriate displays.

I can now Find and validate data measures e.g MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE AND RANGE from appropriate displays.

Here is my Evidence

My Exposition

WALT - Write and Exposition.
This is my Conclusion,
Leadership is a skill of being able to motivate people/teams to work towards a goal, and this is the exact reason why I reckon that Richie McCaw is a better leader than Barack Obama.

I can use appropriate skills and technologies to find and use a range of texts for specific purposes.

WALT - I can use appropriate skills and technologies to find and use a range of texts for specific purposes.

For my “Evaluating Leaders” research I have been researching about who is a better leader out of Barack Obama and Richie McCaw.

During this unit I have had to use a range of strategies to find the information I needed on Google. This includes:

Cross checking websites to see if they are legit, Linking different websites so people can see what website I got my information off.

I have achieved this goal because…

Because I was able to Complete my planning sheet.

My next step is to set a new reading goal.

Convert between ordinary numbers and standard form

WALT - Convert between ordinary numbers and standard form.

In class I have been learning how to Convert between ordinary numbers and standard form. I did pretty well.

Here is my Evidence.